• How to Fix It with John Avlon

  • By: The Bulwark
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How to Fix It with John Avlon

By: The Bulwark
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  • Politicians, pundits, and the media spend a lot of time talking about the problems our country faces but not enough time on how to solve them. Each week, John Avlon and his guests hash out sensible and attainable solutions for some of the most vexing issues confronting our democracy—solutions that will likely emerge from the political center.
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Episodes
  • S2 Ep7: End the Tech Overlords' Self-Protection Racket (with Chris Hughes)

    S2 Ep7: End the Tech Overlords' Self-Protection Racket (with Chris Hughes)
    Feb 16 2025
    Since the ‘90s, tech companies have been virtually immune from lawsuits over what’s posted on their platforms, even though their algorithms are amplifying misinformation, hate, and dangerous content that incites violence. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes tells John that the public would never agree to a blanket liability shield for industries like banking, airlines, food, and pharmaceuticals—and it's high time that Section 230 gets scrapped.

    show notes

    • Follow Chris on Substack
    • Chris's forthcoming book, "Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy"
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    35 mins
  • S2 Ep6: The AI War on Normal People (with Andrew Yang)

    S2 Ep6: The AI War on Normal People (with Andrew Yang)
    Feb 9 2025
    The Founding Fathers were aware that yawning gaps between rich and poor destabilize a society. And with AI driving ever greater income inequality while it eats through American jobs—blue-collar, white-collar, and the kind of work in professional services firms that college grads have trained for— our country’s leaders should be responding to the reality that is already upon us. Andrew Yang has been warning for years about the inevitable impacts of AI on our economy and our democracy, and he joins John to discuss possible solutions, including universal basic income and child tax credits.

    Andrew Yang joins John Avlon.

    show notes
    Andrew's 2018 book, "The War on Normal People"
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    34 mins
  • S2 Ep5: Make Congress Work (with Yuval Levin)

    S2 Ep5: Make Congress Work (with Yuval Levin)
    Feb 2 2025
    In other democracies, when a party wins an election it wins all the power. But American democracy is different, and under the Constitution, members of Congress are supposed to engage in cross-partisan bargaining—yet they’re failing at this very basic job. What we’re left with are spending bills finalized at midnight before a government shutdown, and party line votes that are undone by other party line votes. Yuval Levin joins John to discuss some remedies: expanding the number of House members, re-empowering committees to reduce some of the leadership’s power, and using rank-choice voting to get the kind of candidates who bargain and build coalitions.
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    35 mins

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